Shipping department of a salmon canning establishment, Astoria, Oregon

Title: Shipping department of a salmon canning establishment, Astoria, Oregon
LC Subject: Salmon Canneries
Description: This shows the packing process going on in the warehouse. A standard case of salmon consists of forty-eight one-pound cans. Everyone recognizes that the best fishing grounds may be depleted of fish after a period of time if they are not restocked. With the enormous consumption of salmon increasing each year it is easy to see that the salmon supply would in a few years become exhausted if it were not replenished either by natural or artificial propagation. It is well known that some other species of food fishes are becoming greatly reduced in numbers by constant fishing. In these cases natural propagation does not supply enough young, or not enough reach maturity to restore the species. Our government, both federal and state, has for a long time recognized the necessity of artificial propagation in assisting nature to replenish exhausted streams and lakes with fish. The federal government through the United States Bureau of Fisheries has established more than thirty hatcheries in different parts of the country and annually several billions of fishes are handled. Hatching and transplanting are carried on almost coninuously, stocking new waters or maintaining the supply by planting in streams already provided. Our own state has twelve fish stations and hatcheries. The hatchery at Bonneville is known as the Central Station, and is the largest and best equipped.
Work Type: lantern slides
Location: Astoria >> Clatsop County >> Oregon >> United States
Date: 1920/1930
Identifier: P217:28:68
Rights: In Copyright
Local Collection Name: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides, 1900-1940 (P 217)
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Primary Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Is Part Of: Set 43 - Salmon Industry
Institution: Oregon State University